The “Migrant Mother” photo
The Migrant Mother --- The Great Prints series The iconic image of The Great Depression known as “Migrant Mother” was taken by studio and portrait photographer turned government photographer for the Resettlement Administration –Dorthea Lange. Turning away from her studio work as she saw the suffering going on around her, she joined the Resettlement Administration– a New Deal agency – tasked with helping poor families relocate. Dorthea Lange One day in 1936 Lange found herself in Nipomo, California at a campsite full of out-of-work pea pickers. The...